JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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The author shows how most Native Americans experienced pain and suffering along the Trail of Tears no matter which tribe they were from.
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The author demonstrates how some Native Americans were better warriors because they chose to fight whereas other tribes were very passive in their journey of the Trail of Tears.
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The author presents differing perspectives of the Trail of Tears from two Native American tribes; one who complied with the orders to leave and one who refused and fought back.
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The author presents the stories of two individuals as they describe the different ways they suffered along the Trail of Tears.
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Detailed explanation-1: -With so many newcomers moving west, the federal government established a policy of restricting Native Americans to reservations, small areas of land within a group’s territory that was reserved exclusively for their use, in order to provide more land for the non-Indian settlers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term ‘Indian’ is a misnomer that was used to describe the native Americans by Christopher Colombus. Colombus set out to discover India but ended up discovering America. He took to calling the native Americans ‘Indians’ due to his mistaken assumption of having reached India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ancestors of the American Indians were nomadic hunters of northeast Asia who migrated over the Bering Strait land bridge into North America probably during the last glacial period (11, 500–30, 000 years ago).
Detailed explanation-4: -Arizona comes in at No. 1, followed by California and Oklahoma, as the top 3. More than 5 million Native Americans live in the United States as members of 574 federally recognized and 63 state-recognized tribes. That number is projected to rise to 10 million by 2060.